TEAC has announced the introduction of the £250 AI-101DA integrated amplifier with USB DAC – the first product in its new 'baby' Reference 101 series that marks the next stage in its "quest to miniaturise hi-fi".

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Meridian says this brand new technology "is really about the future of recorded music", with MQA promising to more efficiently package studio master quality files in order to take up less space and allow for streaming as well as downloading high-resolution audio